Yucca Dreaming

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

— Aldo Leopold

Yucca Dreaming is an illustrated children's book. The story was inspired by my own experience as a child spending time with my grandmother on our family's working cattle ranch in central Montana. My grandmother has a connection to her land that embodies what the great ecologist Aldo Leopold calls a land ethic, a perspective I've attempted to illustrate in Yucca Dreaming. The story is a portrait of place told through the adventures of a young girl and a magical moth.

My sister Clare and I at our grandparent's ranch near Coffee Creek, Montana.